Heron Dance art journals and books explore the inner work underlying creative work and creating a life.
The primary tools in this practice are the use of art journaling in combination with meditation.
All Heron Dance books are published (or shortly will be) in both inexpensive e-formats (PDF and Kindle) and premium, first-edition art books.
All prices include taxes (and shipping for books, art and other physical items).
The following options start with the least expensive.
Book exploring journaling tools and techniques to be published in late 2024.
PDF will be included in paid subscriptions to Creativity as a Way of Life.
Creativity as a Way of Life:
Journal Meditations of Working Artists
An exploration of the inner work underlying creative work, and the usefulness of art journals in that process. How artists, novelists, filmmakers, etc. use journaling to explore possibilities. Excerpts from interviews, memoirs, autobiographies, letters and Heron Dance interviews of artists.
Published on Substack two or three times a week.
Each post contains a perspective from a working artist on the use of journaling in creative work.
Once a week, Creativity as a Way of Life includes a video of Rod MacIver, founder and artist at Heron Dance, painting and discussing the week’s posts.
E-Format
$5 a month or $50 a year on Substack here.
Includes the e-book Using An Art Journal To Probe Deep (PDF format, to be sent to subscribers December 2024)
Links to the PDFs are automatically included in the posts you’ll receive.
Founding Member:
$150 a year. Includes the hardcover first edition of Nurturing the Song Within, and the print edition of Using An Art Journal To Probe Deep (available in late 2024). Subscribe on Substack here.